Rate My Professor Julián Díaz

Julián P. Díaz is an Associate Professor of Economics at Loyola University Chicago's Quinlan School of Business and Executive Director of the George Kaufman Center for Financial Policy Studies. He holds a PhD and MA in Economics from the University of Minnesota, an MSc in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, and a BSc in Economics from Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Before joining Loyola University Chicago, Díaz served as Assistant Professor of Economics at Bowdoin College from 2006 to 2013. He has also been a Visiting Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (Stockholm School of Economics) in summers 2014, 2015, and spring-summer 2017, as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Research Departments of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (2009-2010) and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (2007).

Díaz's research focuses on international trade, international macroeconomics, and Latin American economics, with particular emphasis on economies of South America over more than 15 years. His publications include “Does Dollarization Promote Trade? Evidence from Two Recent Episodes” (Applied Economics, 2024), “The Causal Effects of FTAs on the Trade Margins: Evidence from Geographically Distant Partners” (Southern Economic Journal, 2022, with Sang-Wook (Stanley) Cho and Hansoo Choi), “Skill Premium Divergence: The Roles of Trade, Capital and Demographics” (Economic Theory, 2019, with Sang-Wook (Stanley) Cho), and “Trade Integration and the Skill Premium: Evidence from a Transition Economy” (Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, with Sang-Wook (Stanley) Cho). He co-authored “A Monetary and Fiscal History of Ecuador, 1960–2017” (University of Minnesota Press, 2021, with Simón Cueva) and contributed chapters on Ecuador's economic history to Inter-American Development Bank volumes (2018). Díaz has received multiple Quinlan Faculty Development Grants (2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019) and Loyola University Chicago Faculty Development Leave Awards (2017 and 2023). He currently serves as Second Vice President of the Midwest Economics Association (2023–2024).